On behalf of Pakistani liberals and rights activists, we condemn Saudi Arabia’s illegal attack againts a soveign nation, Yemen. Saudi Arabia has violated internaitonal law and UN charter by attacking a sovereign country.

We condemn the tragic loss of life in Yemen where hundreds innocent women, men and children have been killed in airstrikes by Saudi Arabia on their homes in Sana’a and elsewhere. Here are a few pictures of destroyed homes in Sanaa that were targeted last night (26 March 2015) by Saudi Air Strikes on Yemen. Innocent Sunni Sufi and Shia children, women and men are being killed and injured in Saudi-led air strikes on Yemen.

The Saudi aggression seems to be motivated by the recent losses suffered by the Al Qaeda, ISIS and other Takfiri Salafi and Wahhabi militants in Yemen at the hands of Yemeni armed forces and Ansarallah (known as Houthis). Saudi Arabia wants to export Takfirism and Salafism (i.e., Al Qaeda, ISIS) to Yemen and doesn’t want to see stability and democracy in a neighbouring country.

Through aggression on Yemen, Saudi Arabia wants to save ISIS from a sure defeat in Tikrit and Mosul, by diverting Iran, Hezbollah, Kurds to Yemen.

Al-Qaeda and Takfiris are about to be wiped off from Yemen. Therefore Saudi Arabia is worried and using naked aggression against Houthis.

We are concerned to note that Saudi Arabia announced “its” war against Yemen from Washington. United States seems to have given a tacit nod to Saudi Arabia in this aggression. We urge Russia, China and other nations to play their own role to counter this act of aggression by Saudi Arabia and its Western sponsor.

According to Yemen’s government, “there is a great anger among the population in Yemen against those countries like USA and Saudi Arabia who support Al-Qaeda and ISIS. The Saudi Arabia are offering a clear support to AQ in Yemen. 25 million (Ymenen inhabitants) will move to respond”.

We support Pakistani cricker Shoaib Akhtar’s social media campaign: Kindly use this tag #PakistanRejectsSaudiWarOnYemen‬ to condemn the Saudi aggression on Yemen being a Pakistani.

We note that mainstream media hiding the fact that this is an attack on Yemeni Armed Forces which comrise Yemen Army includuing Republican Guard, air force, navy and the popular movement Ansarallah. It’s not an attack on Houthis alone, it is an atack on Yemen, its capital and its armed forces.

We fully support Yemen Amed Forces in defence of their motherland from the Saudi Aggression. We hope that every single Saudi, UAE or Bahrain sodier or Al-Qaeda/ISIS terrorist who illegally steps on Yemen’s soil will be eliminated by brave Yemen army.

We believe that Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif has exceeded his legal mandate by committing our armed forces to support the Saudi attack on Yemen. We urge PM Nawaz Sharif to refain from committing Pakistani troops in support of Saudi aggression on Yemen in any form or shape, directly or indirectly.

We urge Pakistan army / ISPR to clarify its position through an urgent press release.

We also urge Pakistani lawyers to move to Supreme Court and parliamentarians to call an urgent session of Senate and National Assembly forcing the Nawaz Sharif gov to explain clear facts about the current or future Pakistani role in Saudi attakc on Yemen. Questons to be asked: 1. Are there currently any Pakistani troops, planes, ground forces on the Saudi-Yemen border? 2. Who authorized them? 3. What exact is their direct or indirect role in Saudi attack on Yemen?

Saudi Arabia wants to lure Iran into Yemen. Want to know why? Here’s the answer:
“Rudaw English @RudawEnglish
‪#‎US‬ and ‪#‎Iranian‬ officials meet at Beau Rivage Palace Hotel in ‪#‎Lausanne‬ to discuss Iranian nuclear programme”
There will be a national day of mourning in Riyadh, Tel Aviv and Raqqah if the US-Iran nuclear talks are successful.

We Pakistanis condemn the Iranian involvement in Yemen and bringing Saudis with some other countries to act in their defense. We Pakistanis are neutral but we ll act in defense for Saudia against any proxy war aggression, led by any third country, who ever it ll be.

Abdul Nishapuri:
Western media, takfiri Deobandis and their comrade liberals ignore that Zaidis are a version of both Sunni Hanafi and Shia Islam. They ignore it because this does not allow them to construct false Sunni-Shia or Saudi-Iran binaries. The denominations of Islam in Yemen are as follows: 35% primarily of the Sunni Shafi’i, 8% Hanafi and Maliki, 2% Salafi/Wahhabi etc. 50% of the Zaidi order of Shia/Sunni Islam, 5% of the Shia Jafari and Shia Ismaili. “Zaydis are theologically closer to Sunni Islam than they are to mainstream Twelver Shias” http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/05/201152483619116456.html

Al-Hadi ila’l-Haqq Yahya, founder of the Zaydi state in Yemen, instituted elements of the jurisprudential tradition of the Sunni Muslim jurist Abū Ḥanīfa, and as a result, Zaydi jurisprudence today continues somewhat parallel to that of the Hanafis.

Ali Taj said:
Zaidis are a Sunni Shia hybrid sect, they follow Imam Abu Hanifa’s and Imam Zaid’s fiqh, and represent a beautiful fusion and pluralism of Sunni and Shia Islam. Although we may not like their anti-Semitic rhetoric, their main thrust is not anti-America or anti-Israel, it is anti Saudi Imperialistm, anti Al-Qaeda, and anti Takfiri.

This time around more Pakistanis are completely opposed to PM Nawaz Sharif’s slavish surrender to supporting Saudi Arabia attack on the sovereignty of Yemen.
It was not the same in 2011 when Pakistan army mercenaries assisted the Saudis in crushing a pro democracy movement in Bahrain. This was the time when some Pakistani “liberals” were cheering for the same so-called Arab Spring that simply changed military dictators in Egypt and installed Al Qaeda/FSA/ISIS in Libya and Syria.
At that time, there were also “liberal” “anti-establishment” “pro democracy” types who were engaged in deliberately obfuscating the situation in Bahrain and acted as cheer leaders to the brutal suppression of the pro democracy movement there. These “progressives” played a pathetic role in misrepresenting the democracy movements against the Bahrain monarchy as an “Iranian conspiracy”.
They then used this tactic to silence the atrocities committed by the Khalifa regime in Bahrain and its Saudi and Pakistan army supplied mercenary collaborators.

LUBP

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